The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1936, Page 1

7 ESTABLISHED 1873 ' BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1986 ! | (<= |] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CONTRACTS LET 10 FINISH INTERIOR OF MANUAL ARTS UNIT}- Business Firms Advance $10,- 000 to Board of Education for Work WILL BE REPAID IN RENTAL Crowded Capitol Made Emer- gency Action Necessary to Keep Agency Here Contracts totaling $9,100 for com- pletion of the interior of the manual arts department of Bismarck’s new high school building were to be signed by the city board of education and the successful bidders Saturday. The space, totaling approximately 5,400 square feet, will be occupied by the state headquarters of the WPA, now in the state capitol building. The work is expected to be completed by Sept. 7 and the federal agency will assume oecupancy as soon thereafter as possible. Because the school board is in straitened finances, money to fi- nance the construction is being ad- vanced by business firms which Thursday turned $10,000 over to the board of education to be placed in a special building fund. To Get Money Back Firms subscribing the money will receive rent to be paid by WPA until the cost of the improvement is liqui- dated. Public participation was made necessary because of crowded condi- tions in the Capitol building, Dr. H. A. Brandes, president of the Associa- tion of Commerce, said Friday. For more than a year a special com- mittee of the association has cooper- ated with state and federal agencies in the task of finding adequate office space for federal activities. Since the. WPA now. occupies siderable space which will be by the legislature when it convenes next winter, it was deemed advisable to provide more room to meet the an- ticipated emergency. Capitol Is Crowded All of the federal agencies and some of the state departments now in the capitol are crowded for working space. Chief among the latter is the state tax department which, because of the growth of the sales tax division, has outgrown the space originally as- signed to it. In addition to quarters in the leg- islative wing of the capitol the WPA now occupies one floor in the tower. ‘This will be made available for use by other state and federal depart- ments when the WPA moves into the high school building. If additional space is needed in view of the drouth emergency, members of the school board have indicated, they will con- sider a proposal to house other of- fices in the high school building un- til the manual arts wing is completed and a general adjustment of office space can be made as a result of re- moval of WPA from the capitol. Cooperation Praised Praising the cooperative attitude of the school board members, Brandes gaid joint activity was necessary to cooperate fully with the federal agen- cies and to remove from them pres- sure to transfer parts of their work outside the city of Bismarck because of the lack of facilities here. Members of the school board said the deal was advantageous for them since the board will be enabled to complete, without cost to it, a part of the building which otherwise would have had to be finished at the ex- pense of the general taxpayer. Contracts to be. signed Saturday were to contain a time limit within which the work must be finished. Suc- cessiu) bidders were J. C. Beattie, general contractor; Fred Hessinger, plumbing and heating; Lyman Mor- ley, electric wiring; R. L. Melville and B. K. Skeels, bidding jointly, electri- cal fixtures. Roosevelt Planning To Cross Fundy. Bay " Aboard Schooner Liberty, Westport, i —()—President Roose- Friday it on Le Brier island despite te ocsiael of fog warning bell on the U, 8. Bloody Battles Pockmark Spain WPA to Occupy Quarters in High School Building They May Hang Together James (left), convicted of drowning his seventh wife, is to die on California gallows and his accomplice, Charles Hope ‘(right), may follow him there. Hope pleaded guilty and Friday may mean the hangman for * Barber Is To Die on Gallows: Snake Killer’s Hanging Is Man- datory; Accomplice May Dangle Also Los Angeles, July 25.—(4)—Doomed to the last of his seven wives, Robert 8. James sat in the “high-powered tank” of the county jail Saturday, shunned by his fellow prisoners. ... Next, Thursday. the ber with the pale face and instcrut- able green eyes will be led before Superior Judge Charles Fricke, to be sentenced to hang. A jury verdict of first degree mur- der with no recommendations for len- jency made it mandatory on the court to impose the maximum penalty. James Appears Calm At 8:10 o'clock Friday night the Jury of 10 men and two women came into the court after deliberating slightly more than nine hours. The marrying barber, charged with execut- ing a diabolical plot to kill his wife, Mary, by rattlesnake venom and drowning to collect on her life insur- ance, appeared calm. ‘When the verdict was announced, James remained phlegmatic. He slumped slightly in his chair. His pale taut face was still. “I'm not afraid to die,” he said. “I haven't had any interest in this old world for the last four or five years. the court fixed the degree of his guilt as first degree murder which him when he hears sentence passed ‘Tuesday, die on the gallows for the death of | Ted. haired -ber~| * * ee & Doomed ASSERTS PRESIDENT FAVORS BETTER USE OF WATER ON SOIL Nye Sees-~Opportunity to. Re-- open Missouri Diversion Drive on New Basis Belief that President Roosevelt has told army engineers to get busy and devise a plan for getting Missouri tiver water on North Dakota soil was expressed here Saturday by U. 8. Senator Gerald P. Nye. This belief is the basis for hope that the government will take definite action looking to an extensive water conservation program and to the de- velopment of irrigation in this area. While he was conferring with the president, Nye said, the latter called the chief of army engineers and di- rected that the government experts survey the situation in this area and make a report as soon as possible. As a result Nye sees a rebirth for ‘They can make it just as snappy as they want to—and the day I’m hanged will be the happiest day of my life.” He said “it makes no difference to me” if his attorneys ask for a new trial. One, Samuel Silverman, an- nounced he would. ‘Gave Me the Works’ ‘When ‘he was led to the “high-pow- ered tank,” so called because import- ant prisoners were kept there, he com- mented “I guess they gave me the works.” Before the jurors began their con- sideration they joined in prayer, ask- pe, ite guidance for a just ver- Charles Hope, former sailor and hot-dog stand proprietor, also will be sentenced Tuesday. He pleaded guilty tw first degree murder in connection with Mrs. James’ death, and Friday +|Judge Fricke fixed the degree of his guilt as murder in the first degree. GREAT LAKES SHIPS ® BUSIEST SINCE 1990, Cargo and Fuel Coal Shipments Expected to Break All- Time Record the Missouri river diversion idea. Studies now available show that di- version can be accomplished by bulld- ing a much lower dam than was orig- inally proposed and by making & longer tunnel through the Missouri coteau to the edge of the sastern watershed. Instead of $60,000,000 as originally proposed, the new estimate of cost is $22,000,000. Capt. O. E. Walsh, U. 8. army en- gineer at Kansas City, has been 1 CIVIL WAR MAY LAST LONG TIME, BOWERS PHONES WASHINGTON; Marooned Ambassador Asserts Both Sides Occupy Impor- tant Sectors ALL AMERICANS EVACUATED 140 United States Citizens Re-|At Least 100 Other Offenders main Helpless in Embassy at Madrid Washington, July 25.—(@)—Ma- OLYMPIC OFFICIALS ‘DISGRACED SELVES T00, SAYS ELEANOR Cocktail Parties Were Nightly Occurrences Aboard Ship, She Charges MOCK MARRIAGE ‘SHOCKING’ on Manhattan, ‘Barred Swimmer Asserts Berlin, July 25.—()—In a militant rooned amid the chaos of Spain, but |defense of her own behavior, Eleanor still unharmed, American Ambassador Claude G. Bowers had submitted to |swimmer, the state department Saturday a tele-;committee officials had “disgraced” Phonic report indicating that the fierce civil war may last a long time.!aboard the Liner Manhattan en While many American refugees fled from the strife-torn country in several, vessels and more got ready to leave, the state department finally succeeded Friday night in telephoning Bowers at his summer villa near San Sebastian. Bowers, who had been isolated there several days while fears for his life mounted, reported that the warring Leftist government forces and the revolutionary Rightists each held im- portant sectors of the country. Americans Evacuated From San Sebastian, where condi- tions earlier were reported “horrible,” Americans wishing to leave had been evacuated aboard the British de- stroyer Verity to St. Jean de Luz, France, Bowers reported. Later the American battleship Oklahoma and the coast guard cutter Cayuga arrived in the San Sebastian harbor. Anxious over reports from Spain, which included news of the killing of @ Spaniard and a British subject in an automobile protected by the Am- erican flag, state department officials had sought all day Friday to establish telephone connection with the Bowers villa at Fuenterrabia. Assistant Secretary of State Wilbur rd. Care. Bowers’ voice over the wire. ¥ Bullets Strike Hotel “Stray bullets have struck the hotel where ghe American chancery is lo- cated, and two hotels have been taken over for hospitals,” Carr said Bowers ported. “Martial law is in effect from Bar- celona to Malaga along the Spanish coast. Rebels have Pamplona, Bugos and Saragossa. In San Sebastian the gov- ernment is in control. The governor is also in control of Madrid. “In Seville the rebels are in control and from that point they are broad- casting stories of rebel successes.” The report about Seville conflicted with the claims of Spanish govern- ment sources, which announced that loyalists had captured the city. 140 Refugees In Madrid While 140 Americans remained ref- ugees in the American embassy at Madrid, with little prospect of getting to the sea coast to flee the country, many others more fortunate already had departed. The American steamship Exeter had taken 164 persons, including some 60 Americans, from Barcelona and sailed ‘way to Marseilles, France. Nearly all Americans at Tarregona had left on a British steamer. Consul Thomas D. Davis reported that Communists controlled Valen- cla, At Tangiers the American consul general protested to Spanish revel leaders t airplanes under their ordered here for a conference with;command had dropped three bombs near the American liner Exmouth as it.passed through the Straits of Gib- Nye, Gov. Walter Welford and others interested in the project, and a con- ference on the matter is slated for ‘Tuesday at the capitol building. The cost of completing the survey was put at $25,000. Captain Walsh was detailed to re- open the diversion study upon an appeal by Nye to Stephen Early, sec- retary to the president, in which he said that of the tests made to de- Juneau, Alaska, July 25.—(#)—Fear that a major typhoid fever epidemic has broken out in several villages on termine dam footings, only one .hole|Bristol bay, on the Bering sea, were hed shown a formation unsuitable expressed by the bureau of Indian for dam construction and that in any |#ffairs here Saturday, as an airplane event it was unfair to let the matter |flew s physician, three trained nurses, drop hole since there are other places the river which could serve as site for a dam. -EXPAND WPA ROLLS the Baby Is Heaviest ‘But Not Longest the showing from one test |Serum and other medical supplies to nes (oe on|the stricken area. Meager reports received by radio from Dillingham, said. there were 144 serious cases of typhoid fever and many minor cases. ‘Wanna Feed a Duck? City Has Colony of ’Em|® A -f wae relieved -to- near 40.d0. £0. Cocktail parties were. & Holm Jarrett, disbarred Olympic charged Saturday that and “misconducted” themselves toute to Berlin. She described as “shocking” mock marriage and mock trial, pre- sided over by Gustavus T. Kirby, treasurer of the American Olympic committee, which featured a ship- board entertainment, and charged that at least 100 other athletes had violated training rules with regard to drinking or late hours. After her entry in the 100 meters; back stroke event had been formally withdrawn and Avery Brundage, pres- ident of the American Olympic com- mittee, had declined to reverse the decision dismissing her from the team for drinking and other infractions of training rules, Mrs. Jarrett opened fire on the Olympic officials them- selves, 100 Other Offenders . “In the first place I wasn't the only athlete to break training rules or stay up after curfew sounded,” she said in a formal statement. “There were at least 100 offenders one way or another... “Officers accompanying the team, who were presumed to be setting a good example for all on board, failed nightly otcurrence. Not only was the social activity such on the upper decks that the athletes as a whole received scant attention from com- miteemen, but officer-members of the Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the Coughlin Awaiting Vatican’s Verdict 'BOTH PARTIES ARM | FOR POLITICAL WAR IN EASTERN STATES Landon Plans Three August Speeches in New York and ——, Washington, July 24—()—Fixing| The priest had Frank Murphy, Phil- | special attention on the vast voting | ippine high commissioner and candi- populations of New York and Pennsyl-| date for the Democratic nomination vania, the major parties bowled along Saturday toward the climactic cam- paigning that will feature the months) Pennsylvania just ahead. As in the past, much effort will be spent on the drives to corral the two big eastern states, cast 82 of the electoral college's votes. Swinging east, Gov. Alf M. Landon will travel to West Middlesex, Pa., his | birthplace, and Chautauqua and Buf- falo, N. Y., in late August. President Roosevelt's forces also are planning Pennsylvania, where they held their) national convention, and in New York, i sad where Gov. Herbert H. Lehman has yielded to New Deal requests to take; part in the battle as a candidate for intensive campaigns re-election. Step by step with the making of campaign plans, there took place Sat- urday a rapid-fire debate over the issues as outlined in Gov. Landon’s His declaration that relief costs are acceptance speech Thursday night. too high brought repercussions here. Calling Landon’s remarks “obviously Aubrey Williams, acting Works Progress administrator, said overhead was less than 4 per cent and the only way..to reduce.costs. was. “cut thé people off and let them starve.’ On the other hand, Senator Holt | (@em., W. Va.), a critic of the WPA, | said that Landon’s assertion that he; would not make relief economies at politic: toe al,” which together in) Says Bishop's Visit in Rome Has Nothing to Do With His Politics Buffalo, N. Y., July 25.—(#)—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin declared here Saturday that the visit of Bishop Michael Gallagher of Detroit to Vat- ican City has “absolutely no connec- tion with my differences with Presi- dent Roosevelt.” Father Coughlin was in Buffalo for on address Saturday. From there he plans to fly to Fargo, N. D., Saturday night, home of Rep. Lemke. He will speak Sunday at Lake Elsie near Hankinson, N. D. for governor of Michigan, as his luncheon guest at his Royal Oak home Friday. Murphy and his party subse- quently saw Father Coughlin off on his trip to Buffalo. Shall Obey Orders In his latest interivew, Father Coughlin said that “first, last and always, Tama priest; whatever orders come from Rome curtailing my preaching of social justice, I shall Obey.” He declined to comment on reports Friday that he had talked with Vati- jcan lofficials by transatlantic tele- Phone, but an associate said he knew The associate said, however, that Father Coughlin had had a ship-to- shore telephone conversation with Bishop Michael] Gallagher of Detroit lafter the bishop sailed from New York for Rome. Bishop Disapproved Before he sailed, Bishop Gallagher expressed disapproval of the language jused by Father Coughlin when he applied the word “liar” to President Roosevelt, during an address at Cleveland. Father Coughlin’s apology to the president for the use of the word ap- |Peared Friday in his publication “So- jcial Justice.’ Bishop Gallagher, due to reach Vatican City next week for an audi- ence with Pope Pius, was expected to defend Father Coughlin and his po- litical activities, as he has in the | Past. —— ' Local thundershowers or tonight; Sunday The Weather this afternoon unsettled and cool, PRICE FIVE CENTS COMMUNISTS AVER HITLER, DUCE ARE FINANCING REVOLT. Loyalists Claim They Now Hold Strategic Pass on Road to Madrid CIRCLE FASCIST VANGUARD American, British, French and Italian Ships Evacuate Nationals (By the Associated Press) Ensconced in mountain passes high above Madrid, loyalist artillery Sat- urday sprayed rebel columns with shells to throw back columns of in- surrectionists determined to capture the capital. Shell explosions could be seen from Madrid along the lines held by troops 40 miles away. Three passes through the moun- tains, key paths to the city, were held securely by leftist troops. The government forces spent the day consolidating their positions on the heights. Battle on in Straits A battle raged in the straits of Gibraltar between six Spanish war- ships and rebel forts at Ceuta, Moroc- co, with opposing forces matching shell for shell. Spasmodic fighting occurred at San Sebastian, the Bay of Biscay summer resort, and a Fascist major named Molles was reported executed by a leftist firing squad after leading his forces in a losing battle against loyal- ists who clung to the town tenaci- ously. The American navy department was advised that 140 United States citizens remained hemmed in at the Madrid embassy with a limited food supply, and that 30 refugees had been rescued at Bilbao by the battleship Oklahoma. Those evacuated were mostly women and children and in- cluded 16 Americans. Fear Spanish refugees, who had sought haven at Gibraltar, were ordered by British authorities to leave for their homes by evening. Medical author- ities feared an epidemic for over- crowding. A mysterious note was lent the po- litical phases of the Spanish revolu- tion by word from Koenigswart, Czechslovakia, that the adjutant of benefit of the athletes... “T've never made any secret of the the expense of the needy but “out of the hides” of politicians “hit on the weakest part of the administration.” DENIES VISIT LINKED WITH PRIEST'S ACTIVITIES former King Alfonso had departed the country at Alfonso’s orders on & secret mission, fact that I like a good time, particue larly champagne. Everyone knows that, including the committee. The newspapers published my statements on that subject during the final try- outs at New York. Wants to Know ‘Why’ “Why then, if they felt so strongly on the subject, didn’t all the Ameri- can Olympic committee keep me off the team right away? Why did they have to wait until we were in the middle of the Atlantic ocean before suddenly deciding that my conduct was too unbearable to permit my re- maining on the team, or that I was such a bad influence on the rest of the boys and girls? “In the first place, I wasn’t the only athlete to break training rules or stay up after curfew sounded. There were at least one hundred of- fenders one way or another ... “Brundage’s statement that I was the sole setious offender and that I alone was responsible for any impres- sion detrimental to the team as a LINDY’S AUTOGRAPH | OBTAINED BY UDET, American Air Hero Breaks Rule to Berlin, July Please Germany’s War Ace 25.— A. Lindbergh signed the first auto- graph he has given during his Ger- man visit for Col. Ernst Udet, the famous German war ace, who asked the favor as @ “buddy.” As Lindbergh sat in semi-darkness under the ancient trees at the foreign- ers’ club on Lake Wannssee, where he and Mrs. Lindbergh were guests | of honor, someone slipped up and (P}—Col. Charles mee “the American filer was about to Forest Fire Fighters | osised ine enn face of ie man Marooned . Atop Pass| no brought down 22 allied planes atop Middle Kootenay pass in British could hardly refuse his buddy.’ Columbia early Saturday, their path cut off by a curtain of smoke and fire. One hundred men were unable to break through to them, but Chief Ranger Harry Bolton expressed con- fidence the group, equipped with plenty of food, was in no imminent rx blaze. Other guests who tried to seize the moment to get autographs were firm- ly turned down. Lindbergh expected Saturday to visit the Aldershof experimental sta- |. ally. tion, Germany's great aviation labor- atory. His meeting with Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Gen. Hermann Wil- helm Goering, the air minister, was definitely set for July 30 when they return from a vacation in southern Germany. Rep’ Meeting in Bismarck A meeting of all state Republican ublican Nominees nominees was to be held here Satur- afternoon, called by the party's state central committee. Whether the | © nominees will unite in a joint cam- paign cussed, although officials declined to| +) this fall is expected to be dis- comment prior to the meeting. iota once tl way bridge. of these are foraging Shaw Chuckles as ‘Orne aight of duck faniice swin-|| He Hits 80th Year ming about the lake has attracted of motorists. the| Malvern, England, July 25—(>) —George Bernard Shaw, who in his “Back to Methuselah” spoke of extreme age, chuckled Saturday jay. “Plans?” he repeated. “A man of @ past but no future. I template anything.’ Naples, July 25.—(#)—Bishop Mich- ael Gallagher of Detroit arriving here Saturday denied absolutely his visit | to the Vatican had anything to do! with the activities of Father Charles | E. Coughlin, radio priest who recently | verbally attacked President Roose- velt. Hl “The Vatican never intervened in| the Coughlin matter,” said Bishop Gallagher. If the pope should ask him about Father Coughlin, Bishop , Gallagher said, “I will say Father Coughlin speaks for the people, not for the William Lemke party. “He said some very just things and | very acute things, and because his priestly mission is exactly that he is occupying himself with the needs of the people. “I absolutely cannot to Father ny Agreed With FDR Once Bishop Gallagher declared the De- troit priest was in accord with the Roosevelt government, at first, “be- cause President Roosevelt promised above all a realization of some pro- visions regarding monetary affairs ind the well-being of the people. Roosevelt changed Policies, not keeping faith with his promises. Therefore Father Coughlin now is against the president.” “In regard to American public opinion, those who have studied the social and economic problems deeply are with Father Coughlin. “Others are those who look upon the problems of live very superfici- Has Many Enemies “They criticize the words of Father Coughlin, who has many enemies, above all because he tries to suffocate private speculation in order to put all under the control of the states for the benefit of the people, and because private industry brings wealth to a of speak contrary his bers of the board, having been ap- Farmingdale, ~ {Pat Abbott, Pasadena, Calif, star, peared The government, expressing confid- ence it was getting the rebellion un- (Continued on Page Three) YOUNG IS CHAIRMAN OF WELFARE BOARD Labor Leader Named to Post at Reorganization Meeting Here Saturday Russell Young, Bismarck typo- grapher and labor leader, was named chairman of the Burleigh County Welfare board at its reorganization meeting Saturday in the courthouse. Theodore Quanrud, local business- man, was named vice chairman and Thomas J. Burke, Bismarck attorney, was designated as secretary. Quanrud and Burke, together with Victor Anderson, Still, are new mem- pointed by the county commissioners to fill the vacancies caused by expira- tion of the terms of Myron H. Atkin- son, city auditor, and James W. Guthrie, both of Bismarck, and J. M. Thompson, Still. All three asked to be relieved of their duties, Atkinson because of the press of other work and Guthrie and Thompson because they are running for political office and felt that this should bar them from further service at this time. . Routine matters involving applica- ions for aid were being discussed at the board session. 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